Whatever your political bent, it’s safe to say that politics today are dominated by smears and half-truths, lent enormous reach thanks to the Web. Did you hear that Barack Obama is a Muslim that took ...

With the next round of US elections just around the corner, the country is hotly debating who the nation’s next set of leaders should be. This hoopla means that revelations about candidates are sure ...

Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a ...

The grant from the National Science Foundation awards four Indiana researchers $919,917 to for a project called Truthy that will, as the grant’s abstract explains, “explore why some ideas cause viral ...

Feeling overwhelmed by the uproar of political messages clamoring for your attention online? Finding it difficult to distinguish political fact from political fiction? A new Website called ...